When designing an electrical equipement product, you typically have the following sub-systems to design and integrate together:
mechanical (a box)
electrical (the wires to inteface with grid + load and power electronics)
the electronics … [Continue reading]

Some of you may have noticed, I have changed the title of this blog from "FPGA Technology and Embedded Software IP in Power Electronics Apps" to "Embedded Software IP & Technology Transfer in Power Electronics Apps" (check the top of the screen). … [Continue reading]

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Paper Submission: Prospective authors are invited to electronically submit regular papers of their work in English. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and submitted … [Continue reading]

Are you new to Intel FPGA-based embedded system design? Make sure to download my new ebook: it contains all steps to design a basic FPGA-based embedded system from scratch including a (1) NIOS II processor-centric system in Qsys, (2) MAX10 FPGA pins … [Continue reading]

2015 has been a big year for power electronics innovations, both from a technical and a business point of view. Of course, Elon Musk has been making the news every week regarding Tesla or other new home battery project closing the gap between its … [Continue reading]

Have you checked the November 2015 issue of IEEE IES Transactions on Industrial Electronics ? There is a special section on the precise topic of "Monitoring, Prognosis and Techniques for Increasing the Lifetime & Reliability of Photovoltaic … [Continue reading]

You certainly know already a lots of things about IoT (if not, read this or this), but do you know about the Initial State's IoT platform ? Briefly, that's a web-based platform (SaaS) to which you can stream data out from your electronics devices. … [Continue reading]

Dear reader, thank you for reading my blog. I take this opportunity to wish you an happy new year 2015, fulfilled with great new designs and hopefully as few bugs as possible. Like previous years, I will take some time to review - from my perspective … [Continue reading]